• DocumentCode
    2724554
  • Title

    Short optical pulse generation by self-phase modulation based compression of a fiber-looped 40 GHz LiNbO3 Mach-Zehnder modulator

  • Author

    Pelusi, M.D. ; Gordon, G.S. ; Eggleton, B.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Phys., Sydney Univ., Sydney, NSW
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    7-10 July 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A novel source of 2 ps optical pulses at 40 GHz repetition is demonstrated using a Mach-Zehnder modulator connected in a fiber-loop and compressing its output through self-phase modulation in highly nonlinear fibre and filtering.
  • Keywords
    optical fibres; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; self-phase modulation; Mach-Zehnder modulator; Short optical pulse generation; frequency 40 GHz; highly nonlinear fibre; self-phase modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Pulse modulation; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2008 and the 2008 Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. OECC/ACOFT 2008. Joint conference of the
  • Conference_Location
    Sydney
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-85825-807-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-85825-807-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610523
  • Filename
    4610523